15 h. ago Trump’s travel ban could cement racism as his most dangerous legacy

From his so-called ‘Muslim ban’ to slashing DEI measures, the US president has turned taboo behaviour into normsThis month marks exactly 10 years since Donald Trump coasted down an escalator at Trump Tower, declared his run for US president and accused Mexico of sending drugs, criminals and rapists into the homeland. The past decade has been exercise in normalising.When Trump threatened to terminate Elon Musk’s government contracts, and Musk linked Trump to the child sex offender Jeffrey Epstein, all because of a petty clash of egos, people were riveted but unsurprised. Likewise, when Trump ordered a travel ban on a dozen countries, many reacted with a collective shrug: well, of course he did. Continue reading...

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26 h. ago Disability cut impact could be even worse than expected warns food bank charity

Research commissioned by food bank charity Trussell found that 340,000 people in disabled households will be pushed into severe hardship by benefit changes being brought in by the Government

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31 h. ago Inside La Liga fallen giants who are eyeing return to Spanish top tier after incredible season

EXCLUSIVE Racing Santander are a famous old Spanish club, and as one of La Liga's founding clubs they have the chance to earn promotion back to the top tier

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3 d. ago Yoga classes resume at San Diego beach as court says they are ‘protected speech’

Instructors Steven Hubbard and Amy Baack had sued after a city ordinance restricted such activities on the beachYoga classes are back on at San Diego beaches this week after a federal appeals court ruled that a city ordinance restricting such activities was unconstitutional and that teaching yoga was “protected speech”.The three-judge panel of the US ninth circuit court of appeals on Wednesday overruled a San Diego judge and decided in favor of two instructors who had sued over a law that San Diego passed in 2024 banning yoga classes of four or more people at shoreline parks and beaches. Continue reading...

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3 d. ago Shay Given: ‘Keeping Alexander Isak is the biggest signing Newcastle can make’

Exclusive: Newcastle legend Given has revealed what the club needs to do this summer to stay among Europe’s elite

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3 d. ago Club Med discount codes for June 2025 – save 20% on luxury resorts

From The Bahamas to Val Thorens, Club Med’s exclusive collection of resorts has you covered

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3 d. ago Trump travel ban comes as little surprise amid barrage of draconian restrictions

President had cued up ban in January order and, despite exemptions, policy will separate families and harm people fleeing crisesDonald Trump’s first travel ban in 2017 had an immediate, explosive impact – spawning chaos at airports nationwide.This time around, the panic and chaos was already widespread by the time the president signed his proclamation Wednesday to fully or partially restrict foreign nationals from 19 countries from entering the United States. Continue reading...

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4 d. ago Hungary’s crackdown on LGBTQ+ content violates human rights, says EU lawyer

ECJ advocate general condemns ‘stigmatising’ law that bars such content from schools and primetime TVEurope live – latest updatesThe Guardian view on Hungary’s anti-LGBTQ+ lawsA Hungarian law banning content about LGBTQ+ people from schools and primetime TV has been found to violate basic human rights and freedom of expression by a senior legal scholar at the European court of justice.The non-binding opinion from the court’s advocate general, Tamara Ćapeta, issued on Thursday, represents a comprehensive demolition of the arguments made by the Hungarian government defending its so-called childprotection law, passed in 2021. Continue reading...

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4 d. ago Inside Ocean Club resort where Madeleine McCann was last seen as security tightened

EXCLUSIVE: Video shows what the Ocean Club in Praia da Luz is like now as a fresh search for Madeleine McCann continues nearby, more than 18 years since she vanished on a family holiday

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4 d. ago Householders advised to soak bananas skins in water immediately before throwing away

People are being advised stop throwing banana peels in the bin.

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4 d. ago Hungary’s crackdown on LGBTQ+ content violates human rights, says EU’s top court

ECJ advocate general condemns ‘stigmatising’ law that bars such content from schools and primetime TVEurope live – latest updatesThe Guardian view on Hungary’s anti-LGBTQ+ lawsA Hungarian law banning content about LGBTQ+ people from schools and primetime TV has been found to violate basic human rights and freedom of expression by a senior legal scholar at the European court of justice.The non-binding opinion from the court’s advocate general, Tamara Ćapeta, issued on Thursday, represents a comprehensive demolition of the arguments made by the Hungarian government defending its so-called childprotection law, passed in 2021. Continue reading...

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4 d. ago President Donald Trump bans people from 12 countries entering USA with seven more restricted

The Supreme Court has allowed President Trump's ban to go ahead

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4 d. ago Donald Trump travel ban LIVE: President stops people from 12 countries visiting US

Donald Trump has resurrected a hallmark policy of his first term, announcing a complete ban on citizens from multiple countries from entering the US - and has placed restrictions on others

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4 d. ago Donald Trump travel ban LIVE: People from 12 countries banned from visiting US

Donald Trump has resurrected a hallmark policy of his first term, announcing a complete ban on citizens from multiple countries from entering the US - and has placed restrictions on others

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5 d. ago Trump signs bombshell travel ban restricting people from 19 countries from entering the US

President Donald Trump is banning visitors from 12 countries from entering the United States and partially restricted access to travelers from seven other nations.

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7 d. ago French Open: Novak Djokovic roars past Cameron Norrie and joins Rafael Nadal in exclusive club

Djokovic remains on track for a record 25th major as he faces Zverev in the quarter-final

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7 d. ago ‘Yes, there was a riot, but it was great’: Cabaret Voltaire on violent gigs, nuclear noise – and returning to mark 50 years

They made music like sonic warfare, using steamhammers for drums and annoying anyone they could. As the band return, they relive the mayhem years – and their soundtrack spinoffs, from Attenborough to ChernobylFifty years ago, Cabaret Voltaire shocked the people of Sheffield into revolt. A promoter screamed for the band to get off stage, while an audience baying for blood had to be held back with a clarinet being swung around for protection. All of which was taking place over the deafening recording of a looped steamhammer being used in place of a drummer, as a cacophony of strange, furious noises drove the crowd into a frenzy. “We turned up, made a complete racket, and then got attacked,” recalls Stephen Mallinder. “Yes, there was a bit of a riot, and I ended up in hospital, but it was great. That gig was the start of something because nothing like that had taken place in Sheffield before. It was ground zero.”Mallinder and his Cabaret Voltaire co-founder Chris Watson are sitting tog...

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9 d. ago UK vape ban could see people fined £200 and given possible prison sentences

Single-use vapes will be banned from shop shelves from Sunday

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1 week ago Spain aims to ban flushing of wet wipes, with manufacturers paying for cleanup

Government’s draft legislation also includes ban on releasing disposable party balloons into the environmentThe Spanish government is preparing a law that will oblige wet wipe manufacturers to cover the costs of cleaning huge wads of their product from the country’s clogged-up sewers and water-treatment plants.The draft legislation, which is intended to help Spain meet the UN Sustainable Development Goals and comply with EU legislation on reducing single-use plastic products, will also ban people from disposing of wet wipes down the toilet, as well as prohibiting the deliberate release of disposable party balloons containing plastic into the environment because of the marine pollution they cause. Continue reading...

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1 week ago Homework by Geoff Dyer review – coming of age in 70s England

Dyer conjures conker fights, saturday jobs and teenage rampages as he charts his journey from a two-up two-down in Gloucestershire to OxfordDroll, erudite, digressive, self-deprecating, laid-back rather than standup in his humour – the Geoff Dyer voice is unmistakable. In his new book he says he’s “most at home in the idiom of the ironic switchback, an educationally enhanced version of something that still [comes] under the broad conversational church-pub known as banter”. You can hear the banter in the title of his 2003 book Yoga for People Who Can’t Be Bothered to Do It.Banter’s trickier with a childhood memoir. If you were relatively happy growing up, as he was, in Cheltenham, the only child of parents who loved him, and you want to be honest about your upbringing, then you can’t muck about too much. Dyer’s humour has never precluded seriousness – about jazz, film, photographs, paintings, DH Lawrence and much besides. But as the title suggests, Homework i...

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